At a career crossroads?

If you’re preparing for a career change, you’ve come to the right place.

I'm Jared Redick, and as a San Francisco-based career coach and executive résumé writer, I offer an expansive new way of thinking about career development—helping professionals pair possibility with reality.

Why possibility and reality?

Because career growth strategies evolve as learners become leaders.

Paradoxically, while compensation, authority, and influence increase as one's career progresses, opportunities narrow as leaders move up the ladder.

Job search, résumé writing, and LinkedIn development strategies that worked in a professional's early career become less effective or even obsolete as a senior leader, executive, or board director.

And because professionals often have their heads down—just doing the good work and being carried along by the winds of change—they're usually unpracticed when they suddenly find themselves considering a career change years deep into a career.

That’s often when they meet me.

If you want to stack the career odds in your favor—not just making a career move, but making the right career move—I've developed a résumé writing and LinkedIn development framework to help you do just that.

But you're going to need thoughtfulness and time, so while it's counterintuitive and won't feel great at first, I'm going to ask you to slow down a bit as you read the ideas I share below.

If you want to take control of your career, I promise it'll be worth it.

Asking the right career questions.

One of the most important parts of my work with private clients is helping them get out in front of their own career narrative.

Part of that means asking the right questions, so in that spirit, I want to start with two key questions that will frame our efforts if we end up working together.

You'll eventually have a chance to schedule an intake session with me if you decide my way of thinking might support your career goals.

First, what type of job seeker are you right now?

• Active Job Seeker: You’re an active job seeker if you plan to openly launch a job search and (a) it doesn't matter who knows about it, (b) you can share your résumé broadly, and (c) you don't need to be as circumspect about your approach to LinkedIn. In fact, if you’re an active job seeker, it’s not a bad idea for your network to know about it.

• Stealth Job Seeker: If you're planning to quietly conduct a job search while you have a job—meaning you can't openly divulge your intentions—then you're a stealth job seeker. Personal brand development is significantly nuanced when you're a stealth job seeker, and the way you present yourself on LinkedIn requires a great deal of strategy and sensitivity.

• Passive Job Seeker: We don’t naturally think about this one, but you're a passive job seeker if you aren't actively looking to make a career change, but wouldn't mind being found and poached for the next interesting role in your career. Even better if you can help those opportunities find you on LinkedIn. Better yet if your résumé is ready to send when a recruiter reaches out.

The truth is, whether or not realize it, most of us are job seekers all the time. But the closer we are to the "passive job seeker" category, the more our intentions need to fly under the radar, and the more wizardry we need to properly develop our LinkedIn profiles. (The trick is to appear happy where you are. More on that if we connect.)

Second, how many career targets do you have?

• One career target

• Two to three career targets

• Three or more career targets, with a dash of the unknown

The number of career targets you have will (a) tell me how much prep and research we'll need to do before we begin developing your personal brand, and (b) inform the narrative development strategies we'll draw from to write your new executive résumé and strategically position your LinkedIn profile for what's next.

Thinking about working together?

My work is loads of fun, but it's also complex, with a serious purpose and outcome. To help with your decision-making, and to optimize our first session together, I've prepared the following 3-step pre-engagement process based on countless intake calls over 20+ years.

Add dimension to your leadership career with research-backed intention and in-depth story development. Emerge from our work together with clarity, a fresh outlook, and a set of powerfully branded materials that speak to the entirety of your professional ambitions.

Step 1 of 3: Choose the path the best describes you